Mark McCaughrean

Another nice morning 42km ride around Campanet before the heat built up too much.

Side note: took a swim at 11pm last night & watched endless Starjunk satellites cruise by on common orbits, often in pairs.

They weren’t faint – the owner of this house in the countryside has outdoor lights everywhere & I have no idea how to turn them off.

What ever happened to mitigating their brightness to at least below human threshold?

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May 27 at 10:37amIceCubesApp
Show threadMark McCaughreanMay 27

And yes, I chose that picture with many contrail clouds slightly ironically, since there were also some planes in the sky last night.

But nothing like as many as the satellites, & we are near a major airport, unlike most astronomical observatories.

One thing we saw that was considerably brighter than all those crap WiFi routers, as bright as Jupiter, was the Chinese space station, Tiangong.